学个词Learn a Word 第1579-skirt

　　今天我们要学的词是skirt. Skirt当动词，意思是“躲避，逃避”。美国媒体报道, Iraq has been using financial institutions and oil smuggling¹ operations to help Iran skirt economic sanctions imposed by the international community. 伊拉克一直在利用金融机构和石油走私帮助伊朗绕过国际社会对其实施的经济制裁。U.S. stocks rose slightly after Germany and France skirted the economic contraction² that happened to the rest of the Eurozone. 德国和法国没有像欧元区其它国家那样出现经济萎缩，这一消息使美国股市出现小幅上涨。好的，今天我们学习的词是 skirt， skirt， skirt...

1 smuggling   

n.走私

参考例句：

• Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
• The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

2 contraction   

n.缩略词，缩写式，害病

参考例句：

• The contraction of this muscle raises the lower arm.肌肉的收缩使前臂抬起。
• The forces of expansion are balanced by forces of contraction.扩张力和收缩力相互平衡。